After a relatively mild day on Tuesday with a maximum of 10.6C, being 2.6C above average, the thermometer began to fall away during the late afternoon and evening to reach a low of 4.3C at 20.05. At that time the advance cloud of the next rain band began to halt the fall and return upwards again so that by 08.00 on Wednesday the thermometer read 10.7C giving us a mild night when it looked as if it was going to be chilly during the previous evening. A further 2.6mm of rainfall took the monthly total to 95.9mm being 103% of the 39-year average.
Yet another deep depression is approaching the UK, named Storm Gerrit by the Meteorological Office yesterday. The current centre pressure at 08.00 is just 970mb and it is heading just north of Scotland. We will see more rain with the wind already brisk and building.
The new day on Wednesday was so dark with virtually no daylight under the very thick, low cloud of the depression. Another wet and windy day is in store with no UV light let alone any brief sunshine.
